from subprocess import run

The subprocess extension to run processes.

>>>fromsubprocessimportrun>>>run('uname -r').stdout3.7.0-7-generic>>>run('uname -a').status0>>>printrun('rm not_existing_directory').stderrrm: cannotremove `not_existing_directory': Nosuchfileordirectory>>>printrun('ls -la', 'wc -l')
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To use pipe from the shell.

fromsubprocessimportrunrun('grep something', data=run.stdin)

$ ps aux | python script.py

Install

You can install it from PyPi, by simply pip:

$ pip install subprocess.run

to test it, launch python

>>>fromsubprocessimportrun

Supported platforms

• Python2.6
• Python2.7
• Python3.3
• PyPy2.1

Tests

>>> python setup.py test